PETROPERU promotes purchase of national raw material for biodiesel production

Palm growers in the Amazon region of our country will have an important development opportunity, thanks to the strategic alliance signed between the National Board of Palm Oil of Peru (JUNPALMA) and the company Heaven Petroleum Operators (HPO), supplier of PETROPERU biodiesel.

The Chairman of the Board of Directors of PETROPERU, Carlos Paredes Lanatta, stressed that this agreement is the result of the articulating role that the state company has developed with the private sector to promote the consumption of alternative products to the coca leaf in the Peruvian jungle. He pointed out that with this agreement an important step is being taken so that national production enters the biodiesel production chain, under the same quality conditions and obtaining a better price than that of the international companies that submitted to the contest.

According to the strategic alliance, JUNPALMA is committed to offering its production of crude palm oil with the requirements and standards required for the production of B100 biodiesel, for which you can count on HPO's technological support in the production process of this Raw material for the production of low sulfur fuels.

Meanwhile, HPO undertakes to prioritize the purchase of raw material from producers associated with JUNPALMA, acquiring a volume of no less than 25%. The HPO company must deliver to PETROPERU, 70,000 barrels of B100 biodiesel, according to the contract previously signed, for the production of clean B5 diesel fuel that the state company offers in the national market.

Given the importance of this agreement that contributes to the growth of the national market, the Minister of Energy and Mines, Juan Carlos Liu Yonsen, participated in the ceremony; the Vice Minister of Hydrocarbons, Víctor Murillo Huamán and the Governor of Ucayali, Francisco Pezo Torres, among other regional authorities in the areas where oil palm cultivation is carried out.

According to the contract signed with the state company, HPO must deliver the biodiesel to the PETROPERU Callao terminal, following the safety and quality and volume control protocols of the product, established in the contract that will come into force next February.

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